South Waikato ginseng producer Maraeroa is now ready to approach potential investors after receiving up to $40,000 funding from the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI).

The red meat sector wants to know what attributes in beef and lamb products are important to key consumers and how it influences their purchase decisions.

Two 80-BAIL Waikato Milking Systems (WMS) rotary platforms are at the heart of a new 10,000 cow dairy farm in China.

New Zealand's provenance story is not always based on clean and green; often it relates to the friendliness of the people, says Mark Piper, Fonterra’s director group R&D.

Rabobank’s latest Global Dairy Quarterly says global prices appear to have peaked in the current cycle.

Three bank economists see a risk of downside to farmgate prices from last week’s GDT auction where the overall price index dropped 2.4%.

Waikato milk processor Tatua will use retentions to grow its cream and protein based value-added products, says chief executive Brendhan Greaney.

Of the top five countries New Zealand trades with, it only has trade deals with two, an ExportNZ conference has heard.

AFFCO’S first shipment of chilled meat landed in China last month and will be swiftly followed by many more, says chairman Sam Lewis.

Meat Industry veteran Sir Graeme Harrison reckons the sector was summed up by a 1994 cartoon captioned, ‘we can’t see, we don’t hear and we don’t talk’.